bluetooth problem

[Eric]

Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> On Sunday 07 February 2010 05:38:37 pm Eric wrote:
>> Howard Coles wrote:
>>> First check to make sure its installed, then look in "/etc/unit.d" for
>>> the bluez start/stop script.  If its there try to restart it by running
>>> "./bluez restart" (or whatever the blue* script is called).
>> I used mlocate to search and I got a ton of information, I couldn't find
>>   /etc/unit.d
>>
>> Here is the result of mlocate. Can you see if bluez is installed please?
>>
>>
>> ericjackson at ericjackson-laptop:~$ mlocate bluez
> 
> That's what I get for trying to use my Android to answer. 
> 
> its "/etc/init.d" not unit.d  sorry.
> And, since I'm now on my Kubuntu box, I found the stop and restart file:
> 
> /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart
> 
> You should see something like the following after running:  ps -ef | grep blue
> 
> root      1674     1  0 07:21 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/bluetoothd --udev
> userid    2134     1  0 07:23 ?        00:00:00 kbluetooth -session <bunch of 
> long numbers>
> userid    2168  2040  0 07:23 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/python 
> /usr/bin/kblueplugd
> 

I did figure out the correct command but I get no output when I run it. 
In fact, if I run the command again, substituting status for restart, it 
says it's not running. I've run it again and checked status again and 
the result is the same.

Eric Jackson